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Asahi Linux installer
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Show the user a hint: you can take a photo of the instructions before rebooting #225

Open rxhfcy opened 11 months ago

rxhfcy commented 11 months ago

When the user is installing Asahi, right before having to reboot, there's a scary warning and a wall of text the user is supposed to memorize (or else...)

When I was installing Asahi for the first time, I remember being very intimidated by the warning(s) and the amount of text to read, understand and remember after the reboot.

I then realized I could just take a picture of the instructions with my phone, which made the experience much less stressful for me (because I knew I had at least some instructions in case something went wrong or if I forgot something).

Suggestion:

Add a hint or "pro tip" to take a photo of the instructions. Before the installer reboots, the user has to press enter twice: once before seeing the instructions, and once after.

Maybe show the tip either before or after showing the instructions, or possibly even both?

Hint: 📷 you can take a photo of the instructions

To be able to boot your new OS, you will need to complete one more step.
Please read the following instructions carefully. Failure to do so
will leave your new installation in an unbootable state.

Hint: 📷 you can take a photo of the instructions after pressing enter.

Press enter to continue.
...
7. Once the 'Asahi Linux installer' screen appears, follow the prompts.

If you end up in a bootloop or get a message telling you that macOS needs to
be reinstalled, that means you didn't follow the steps above properly.
Fully shut down your system without doing anything, and try again.
If in trouble, hold down the power button to boot, select macOS, run
this installer again, and choose the 'p' option to retry the process.

Hint: 📷 you can take a photo of the instructions above.

Press enter to shut down the system.

Example photo: instructions

JD-HD commented 11 months ago

I like this idea. How complex would it be to have there be maybe a 5 second delay before you were allowed to press enter the second time (to help prevent accidentally "clicking through" the warning)?